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On 25/12/12 11:21, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make |
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> sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. |
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> As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html |
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> I too ran into a situation where I couldn't open any xterms because |
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> /dev/pts was empty. The solution for that user came in 2 parts... |
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> |
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> 1) Add the following line to /etc/fstab |
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> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 |
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> 2) Run "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" oops... what udev-mount? I'm |
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> the troublemaker/malcontent who runs mdev instead of udev. |
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> I noticed that the temporary solution would be to manually execute |
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> "mount devpts". The problem was that it would only last till the next |
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> reboot, after which the mount needed to be issued again. I got around |
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> that by putting "mount devpts" in /etc/local.d/000.start (which file |
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> must be executable). It is executed every bootup, solving the problem. |
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> My questions... |
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> 1) Is this just my system, or has anybody else with mdev run into it? |
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> If others have the same problem, I'll update the mdev wiki page to |
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> mention this. |
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> 2) Can someone who uses udev have a look at their "udev-mount" script |
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> and see if it does any other stuff besides mounting devpts? |
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Sorry about the html mail ... I just moved to tbird and didnt realise it |
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BillK |